Estimating the Impact of
Improving inhaler Techniques for Asthmatic Patient
Introduction
Most
of the victims of asthma are children and their population is growing faster.
Although there is a continuous innovation of medicines every year, parents and
people are underestimating its effectiveness on children. Through this
rationale, this paper proposes to conduct a study that estimates the impact of
improving inhaler techniques for asthmatic patient. The main findings of the
applied method are that most of the parents are ware about the effectiveness of
the medicine and they use it the main treatment for asthma.
Background of the Study
In
all over the world, many people especially children are suffering due to
asthma. There is a recorded high rate of asthma and growing faster that
sometimes starts under the age of four years. It is very alarming that the
every year, children are the common victim of the prevalence. Living in poverty
is another factor that can trigger to the high risk of the asthma. However, there
are medicines that are available to control the attack of the asthma but most
of them are too expensive for the poor families. The purpose of the study is to
assess the effectiveness of the medicines for asthma in order to justify the
cost being applied to those medicines. Although there are various available
medicines, still children suffer in the asthma most especially in the depressed
areas.
Asthma,
in medical terminologies, is a disease of complex relationships between the
airway inflammation, obstruction, and hyper-responsiveness that is triggered by
infectious agents, allergens, irritants, or emotional stressors. It is
difficult to determine the early signs or symptoms of asthma but it can be
manage in the early stage of infancy and toddlers. If the parents understood
and can read the behavior of their children therefore, they should bring them
to the pediatric hospital to determine if there are any signs of respiratory
weakness (Koenig and Chesla, 2004). For children who are aware about their current
asthmatic situation, the people should not treat them so especial but only with
proper caution about the things that might trigger the attack of the asthma. It
was also suggested that the school should be also have the initiative to
control or provide right medications for the children suffering from asthma
(Bonner, et al., 2006).
Asthma
caused by symptoms that cannot be cured but can be controlled. To keep the
asthma under the control, the people as well as the parents or guardians should
know what are the appropriate medicines can be applied and how those medicines
can be work. In the determination of the study to provide the adequate answer
about the effectiveness of the medicines, the applied method of the study is
through the use of the questionnaires. The participants came from the hospital
setting and all are parents. These parents were given by a two-page
questionnaire in which they can answer diligently. Within the questionnaires,
the questions are about the personal information of their children, their
asthma history, their rate of return to the hospital for check-up, and the
medicines used for their children. At the second part of the questionnaire, the
parents are bound to demonstrate through words or drawing on how the medicines
act as the treatment for asthma as well as the process in preparing them for
their child during the attack of the asthma.
In
controlling the asthma, there are two types of medicines used which are the
controllers and the relievers. The controllers work during the swelling, mucus,
and muscles tightening around the airways. It is used everyday or when the
child had a bad feeling about his/her body. On the other hand, relievers are
the emergency treatment being applied to open the airways when they are even
tighter or became tighter than the usual. The relievers are only applied for a
maximum of three times per week if the breathing is not normal with the
controller medicine (Green, Levin, and Gray, 2008).
Objectives
The aim of this essay is to propose a study that
will investigate the impact of improving inhaler techniques for
asthmatic patient. In this
current essay, all are based from literatures about inhaler
techniques for asthmatic patient in
healthcare institutions.
The following are the objectives:
1.
To
provide a discussion about the inhaler techniques for
asthmatic patient.
2.
To
review the current stance of inhaler techniques provided by
various health institutions in the country.
3.
To identify the variables affecting to the inhaler
techniques for asthmatic patient.
4.
To determine the effect of current inhaler
techniques for asthmatic patient to the progress and development of healthcare
industry in the country.
5.
Analysing the
value of effective efforts of inhaler techniques in helping the
asthmatic patient
6.
To suggest suitable strategies for enhancing the inhaler
techniques for asthmatic patient.
Methodology
This research study will be conducted under the
qualitative paradigm using the qualitative means of data gathering. According
to Gereffi (1999), in general, qualitative method is concerned with the quality
of the collected data rather than the bulk of informants who participated. As such the study will operate
primarily under the qualitative research approach wherein the quality of the
information gathered rather than the quantity of sources that are available to
the researcher, is highly recommended so as not to compromise the quality of
the data (Gummesson, 2000).Due to the limited capability of the quantitative
method as a single resource there is a need to provide a qualitative
exploratory research procedure that will enable the researcher to perform
in-depth analysis and extensive interpretation of the findings of the study.
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